ever take your tractor to the carwash?

bass

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pretty day today so i loaded Nelly my 300 up and took her to town to the car wash. some yahoo fussed at me cause i was washing a tractor and getting grease all over everything.

what grease that was coming off was falling onto the trailer. i asked if the grease was getting on his Mercedes. he said no so i suggested that he get over it.

My American made $200 farmall needs washing just as much as his $30K German import

bass
53superC
 
I would agree, pretty rude to wash the grease off in car wash, next person will get it all over shoes.

Take it to a truck wash.
 
if that is the case then instead of $200 nike get some $10 wal- mart specials

the grease was on the trailer, what little came off, what came off was mostly mud

not a truck wash around

bass
 
No truck washes here either. The floor is dirty at any car wash. Mud, grease, water whatever. I don't wear my church shoes in the barn or in the car wash........
 
My dad did repairs for the local car wash owner when I was growing up. I saw how hard those guys worked, especially when someone came in and washed off a bunch of grease or manure. I guess I was just raised to clean up after myself and not leave a mess for others.
 
I believe there was a similar tractor @car wash thread. Maybe on tractor talk? Had alot of opinions! If there was no sign prohibiting tractors etc, then go for it. Bet she looked a lot better afterwards. Need to hose off the grease on my 200.
 
The owner of the car wash took your money to use the car wash, I'd wash anything I wanted to wash. Unless of course there was a sign that said "no greasy tractors"
 
I use to take the tractor and blade to the car wash after I finished cleaning the hog floors. It was a 10 mile drive home so I would swing into town on way thru. I doubt any puncture wound in a beemer would actually get out of his car to wash it!
 
Yep I do it twice a year, two tractors. I do not get things really nasty or really greasy, though. I have been to car washes where a cattle trailer has hosed out the thing, and had manure 6" thick all over the place, and that's pretty nasty. That, I would have trouble with. That, I would never do. I have learned to be careful spraying around electrical things, and not to spray those Donaldson glass-jar oil bath air cleaners.
 


Bass, if there was a Mercedes in Rusk county he probably came from Dallas, bought 10 acres in Rusk, built a 3700 sq. ft. brick house, named it "The Back Forty", has a Kubota with blade and loader he has never used in a shed, has 2 horses, a goat, a duck 2 dogs and 2 geese and calls it his FARM!


Pay him no mind, I need to wash Charlene need weekend if its nice.
 
I've never even been to a car wash, though I have seen them while going by so I do believe that they are real.
Zach
 
Every one I ever bought to restore got a "car wash" on the way home. I can't say the man that operated the car wash was tickled to see me show up but he never said anything. gm
 
Since I live in the middle of the Kansas oil patch, the car and truck washes in this town all have grease and oil in them. I don't ever use the soap brush because it usually is full of grease. The only sign they have up is no oil field pickups can go thru the automatic car wash if they have grease and or oil on them. I take my Super C there about 2 or 3 times a year. When I came back from Grand Island, Neb. tractor parade and mud show, I went to the car wash. I tried to keep the mud on the trailer because there was a lot of it. The tricycle front end was completely full of mud. The owner came out and saw what I was doing and he went and got his 1 1/2 wash down hose and let me use it free of charge. Doesn't get any better than that!!
 
I have washed a few, maybe a lot in past. Around here a mud covered pickup, stock trailer,dirty engine will get run off if owner catches you. Carwashes here have to recycle all the water used and none goes in city sewer, they have to be covered so rain water cannot get in. Most have septic tank trucks to pump out pits along pumping tanks for the public.
 
I have washed many tractors in the past before they got painted. Did not use a car wash, always went to a big truck wash, lots more pressure and volume. Most of the grease landed on the wood trailer floor where it got worked in to it to extend the floor life. clint
 
We have a couple car washes in town and one older gentleman used to bring his team in for a wash job. There would be hair and manure all over.We also had a farmer that would wash his stock trailer out and never bother to spend an extra $.50 to at least get it toward the drain. The hose and everything would be covered and actually no one would use it until it was cleaned up.These are the same people that bring their cans and garbage and put it in the dumpsters at the convenience stores of course they first check the food that has an expired time limit.I see nothing wrong with washing a tractor.
 

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